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I heard a sound collector on public radio this weekend refer to three types of sound in a recording: geophonic, anthrophonic, and biophonic. The first describes sounds produced by the Earth and other elements, the second human sounds, and third that from other lifeforms. I remember reading complaints on here (or maybe laments, really) about the lack of pure sounds and places to obtain them. This guy was quantifying that loss.

Anyway, I started using that word in a sound I posted today, since it seems a simple way to refer to the human noise pollution that runs through the background of almost any field recording nowadays: anthrophonic.

Here's the radio program. Bernie Krause is the man:

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/27/216098121/everything-is-connected